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UK government responds to petition asking them to regulate publishers into keeping games "in a working state"May 4, 2024 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunThe UK government has responded to a petition asking for "government intervention" to force the industry to keep video games "in a reasonably working state when support ends", rather than allowing them to become unplayable such as when online servers are shut down. The petition was prompted by the closure in March of ten-year-old Ubisoft racing game The Crew. Read more The Crew has started disappearing from game libraries after its closure last monthApr 14, 2024 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunThe Crew, Ubisoft's 2014 racing game, closed its doors on March 31st. After that date, launching the game took you to a splash screen and then presented an error message when trying to advance, because the servers are no longer offline. Ubisoft have now taken the extra step of revoking The Crew licenses from purchasers and removing it from their library. Read more Ubisoft is stripping people's licences for The Crew weeks after its shutdown, nearly squandering hopes of fan servers and acting as a stark reminder of how volatile digital ownership isApr 12, 2024 - PC GamerThe downside of digital ownership has reared its ugly head for enjoyers of Ubisoft's open-world multiplayer racer The Crew. The publisher has revoked its licence for those who owned it on Ubisoft Connect, almost destroying fan ambitions to revive the game in both an offline and online format... Read more.Gamers seek legal win that would stop developers from rendering online games unplayable: 'It is an assault on both consumer rights and preservation of media'Apr 5, 2024 - PC GamerUbisoft pulled the plug on The Crew this month, rendering the 10-year-old racing game unplayable due, it said, to "server infrastructure and licensing constraints." It's hardly the first time an online game has been sent to a farm upstate by a publisher that neither wants to continue supporting it nor offer players a way to play it offline or on private servers, but rather than accept the status quo, YouTuber Ross Scott is putting up a fight... Read more.Stop Killing Games hopes to petition regulators to stop developers from shutting down gamesApr 4, 2024 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunUbisoft racing game The Crew shut down on March 31st, rendering the game unplayable for everyone who bought it since its release ten years ago. In response, YouTuber Ross Scott has launched Stop Killing Games, "the largest campaign ever to stop publishers destroying games". The initiative exists to encourage people to petetiion their governments about the issue. Read more Half-Life YouTuber starts campaign to stop publishers destroying gamesApr 3, 2024 - PCGamesNThe creator of iconic Half-Life YouTube series Freeman's Mind has launched a new campaign against publishers that close, shutdown, or otherwise bar access to videogames that players have already purchased. Ross Scott, also known via his YouTube channel name Accursed Farms, previously announced that he was considering ways to bring legal attention to this industry-wide practice after Ubisoft confirmed it would close servers for racing game The Crew on Sunday March 31. With that date now passed, Scott has launched a new website called Stop Killing Games, which outlines the campaign's objectives while guiding would-be supporters to a variety of platforms that they may use to protest or petition "the practice of publishers destroying videogames they have sold to customers." Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Half-Life YouTuber plans lawsuit against Ubisoft for killing The Crew Ubisoft takes down its MMO racing game, announces server shutdown Ubisoft are giving away open world racer The Crew The Crew Motorfest arrives on Steam in April, weeks after The Crew 1 turns offMar 26, 2024 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunOn March 31st, Ubisoft's open world racing game The Crew will be turned off for good. As of right now, no one can buy the ten-year-old racer, but come the end of the month, even those that did buy it will no longer be able to play it. On April 18th, The Crew Motorfest will arrive on Steam after several months available via the Epic Games Store and Ubisoft's own launcher, providing a new venue to buy the third entry in the series. Or perhaps that should be "rent". Read more Half-Life YouTuber plans lawsuit against Ubisoft for killing The CrewJan 19, 2024 - PCGamesNThe YouTuber and film-maker behind legendary Half-Life series Freeman's Mind is planning a class-action lawsuit against Ubisoft over the shutdown of racing game The Crew. Ross Scott, also known by his channel name Accursed Farms, claims that the closure of The Crew's servers, scheduled for Sunday March 31, represents a "gray area" in videogame consumer law that he would like to challenge. Scott's contention centers on the fact that, since The Crew is only playable online, after the game's servers are closed, it will no longer be accessible to anybody who owns it, whether digitally or via a physical copy. The Half-Life film-maker, who voices a parody version of in his long-running YouTube series, argues that Ubisoft rendered The Crew "unusable and deprived it of all value after the point of sale." Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Ubisoft takes down its MMO racing game, announces server shutdown Ubisoft are giving away open world racer The Crew The Crew to get a cop-themed expansion, Calling All Units, coming November 29 Motoring MMO The Crew is going offline in March, making it impossible to playDec 15, 2023 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunUbisoft’s open-world multiplayer driving game The Crew will switch off its servers next spring, just shy of the series’ 10th anniversary. The shutdown will leave the car-based MMO impossible to play, with the game pulled from sale ahead of the move. Read more Ubisoft takes down its MMO racing game, announces server shutdownDec 14, 2023 - PCGamesNThe Crew is coming to an end it seems, as Ubisoft announces its closure and the upcoming shutdown of the racing MMO's servers. After almost a decade of wild online rides, the behemoth developer says that the game's removal is a "necessity." The news comes soon after the recent launch of The Crew Motorfest's second season. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Ubisoft are giving away open world racer The Crew The Crew to get a cop-themed expansion, Calling All Units, coming November 29 The Crew: Wild Run is out now, comes with a two-hour timed demo The Crew removed from sale, will become unplayable after April 1: 'We understand this may be disappointing for players still enjoying the game'Dec 14, 2023 - PC GamerThe Crew is being taken off the streets: Ubisoft announced today that sales of its online racing game have been halted on all storefronts, and it will no longer be playable on any platform after March 31, 2024... Read more.The Crew franchise has clocked up over 30 million playersJun 13, 2021 - EurogamerThe Crew has clocked up 30 million players since the franchise first launched back in 2014. The milestone was announced as part of last night's Ubisoft Forward presentation (you can catch up now courtesy of Martin's excellent on-the-night liveblogging right here). "This year has been an incredibly intense one for The Crew 2 and everybody at Ivory Tower," the team explains on the official website. "We managed to deliver an update every four months, as well as a new episode every two months. Our teams have successfully shipped all the content we promised a year ago." Read more The 9 best road trips in PC gamesMay 8, 2020 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunOne Off The List is our weekly list feature. Is there something you think doesn’t deserve to be on this list? Comment with your reasons why, and next week it may be struck off. Kick the tires, whistle at the paint job, spin the keys on your finger like a revolver and then shoot the car with the little laser of unlocking. It’s time to get back on the road. What’s that? Entire country in a state of unprecedented lockdown? I see. Well, lucky for you, we concern ourselves here only with pretend cars, the indoor joy of fictional journeys on virtual roads. Here, my housebound friends, are the 9 best road trips in PC games. Seatbelts on, please. (more…) THE CREW® DEV UPDATEJun 5, 2018 - Community Announcementshttps://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/6583864/4e767c169fddefc3438df78f2a49dcb10e233e07.jpg 510s, With just a few weeks to go until the gates of Motornation open to players worldwide, we’re getting increasingly excited for The Crew® 2’s release. All our teams are hard at work on the game, and our efforts are fully concentrated on The Crew® 2 to prepare for a fantastic launch and everything we have planned thereafter. We would like to reassure all our players that despite this focus, we have no plans to shut down the The Crew® servers any time soon. We will continue running occasional maintenances to ensure optimal performance, and our Support teams will remain available for any issues you may encounter. With this in mind, after three years of continuous support we have taken the decision to make the already temporary halt on patches in The Crew®, permanent. Moving forward, no new content will therefore be added to The Crew® and its expansions The Crew® Wild Run and The Crew® Calling All Units. Thank you all for your understanding and continued passion for The Crew®. We’ll see you on the road! The Crew TeamMidweek Madness - The Crew , 75% OffMay 1, 2018 - AnnouncementSave 75% on The Crew™ during this week's Midweek Madness*! *Offer ends Friday at 10 AM Pacific Time. Digital deals so far this weekNov 8, 2017 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunWe’ve hit the mid-point of the week and the see-saw of time is about to tip forward and hurtle us towards the weekend at an alarming rate. Perhaps more ominously, we will also be hurtling towards the litany of PC gaming Black Friday deals that are headed our way in a fortnight’s time. Before then, however, the deals aren’t slowing down one bit and there’s another big batch of digital deals to check out right here, right now. Everything from this week’s release of Nioh to Cities Skylines and even the absolute gem that is Jagged Alliance 2 is represented across a variety of sites, so consider this a convenient mid-week digital deals roundup if you like. Let’s get to it, shall we? (more…) Community News - Sept 22ndSep 22, 2017 - Community AnnouncementsHello Petrolheads, Over the last few weeks we've been traveling along the road. Our first stop off was in Cologne, Germany. Gamescom was a fantastic opportunity to let racers behind the wheel of the highly anticipated, The Crew 2 for the first time. The next stage of the journey took us to Seattle, Washington for PAX West. Bringing The Crew 2 to the homeland of Motornation! Today's full community round-up can be found here. Don't forget to share your work with the team! Until next time, keep racking up those miles! Community News - Sept 22ndSep 22, 2017 - Community AnnouncementsHello Petrolheads, Over the last few weeks we've been traveling along the road. Our first stop off was in Cologne, Germany. Gamescom was a fantastic opportunity to let racers behind the wheel of the highly anticipated, The Crew 2 for the first time. The next stage of the journey took us to Seattle, Washington for PAX West. Bringing The Crew 2 to the homeland of Motornation! Today's full community round-up can be found here. Don't forget to share your work with the team! Until next time, keep racking up those miles! Have You Played The Crew?Sep 15, 2017 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunHave You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. The Crew isn t a great racing game. The car handling of this open world MMO racer isn t great, there s UI vomited at you from every corner of the screen, and it launched with so many problems that we never actually gave it a full review. It annoyed John a lot. But Ubisoft have this thing they do. Step 1: Release a mediocre game. Step 2: Make one hundred sequels of it. Thus, The Crew 2. (more…) Gamescom RevealsAug 23, 2017 - Community AnnouncementsHey 510s! Two months ago, we started a new road trip beneath the hot California sun during E3 2017. Behind the wheel, our game director Stephane Beley had the great pleasure to unveil, in front of thousands of motorsport and videogame enthusiasts, the next The Crew journey. Be prepared to explore a huge, varied, and action-packed playground built within an open world America and designed for all motorsports. See the full Gamescom recap here.

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